Fw: printer file "name" - problem

[Dennis Malen]

Now that the list has died down I will resubmit this problem as I never 
received any clear cut answers.

It really is a two part question, I will only submit part I.

Is there any way to override in  "rreport" format a printer that is defined? 
Ken will ask me what is defined mean! The printer is defined in Extended 
Function under Options. The processing below does not do it. Ken will ask 
me, "Do what?". It does not allow the ASCII file to be written to the disk.

This problem is not necessarily directed to Ken.

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 2:38 PM
Subject: printer file "name" - problem


> Problem: In order to create a PRINTER FILE "/tmp/anyname" I am using the 
> processing below. The initial problem was that I had to take out the 
> definition of the current printer in the report form I was using. I could 
> not keep the definition and override it with PRINTER TYPE "nocodes". I 
> could get by that problem (but its a pain to copy over the report format 
> and take it out).
>
> The next problem that arose is that when I viewed the file that had been 
> created each record selected was a full screen. I then changed the number 
> of lines of the report from 64 lines per page to one line per page. I also 
> changed the heading so that only one line appeared. That worked fine. I 
> don't think that is how PRINTER FILE "anyname" was intended. I should be 
> able to create a viewable ascii file without having to do what I did.
>
> WHAT AM I DOING WRONG???????
>
>
> Then: pa(1,*,g)
>   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
> If: pa=""
> Then: PUTENV "FPONEHEAD","on"
>   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
> If: pa=""
> Then: printer type "nocodes"
>   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
> If: pa=""
> Then:  printer file "/tmp/dailydep"
>
>  -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>
> Then:pa="p";end
>  -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
> @done" If:
> Then: system "cat /tmp/dailydep|pg";end
>
>
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